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Normalizing Flows (NFs) are a class of generative models distinguished by a mathematically invertible architecture, where the forward pass transforms data into a latent space for density estimation, and the reverse pass generates new…

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Principal component analysis (PCA) is a statistical technique commonly used in multivariate data analysis. However, PCA can be difficult to interpret and explain since the principal components (PCs) are linear combinations of the original…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2013-12-24 W. Liu , H. Zhang , D. Tao , Y. Wang , K. Lu

Principal components analysis (PCA) is the optimal linear auto-encoder of data, and it is often used to construct features. Enforcing sparsity on the principal components can promote better generalization, while improving the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-02-25 Malik Magdon-Ismail , Christos Boutsidis

The architecture of the brain is too complex to be intuitively surveyable without the use of compressed representations that project its variation into a compact, navigable space. The task is especially challenging with high-dimensional…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-12 James K Ruffle , Henry Watkins , Robert J Gray , Harpreet Hyare , Michel Thiebaut de Schotten , Parashkev Nachev

Principal Component Analysis (PCA) is known to be the most widely applied dimensionality reduction approach. A lot of improvements have been done on the traditional PCA, in order to obtain optimal results in the dimensionality reduction of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-28 Chisom Ezinne Ogbuanya

Principal Component Analysis (PCA) is a popular tool for dimensionality reduction and feature extraction in data analysis. There is a probabilistic version of PCA, known as Probabilistic PCA (PPCA). However, standard PCA and PPCA are not…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-16 Bowen Zhao , Xi Xiao , Wanpeng Zhang , Bin Zhang , Shutao Xia

We propose a novel exemplar selection approach based on Principal Component Analysis (PCA) and median sampling, and a neural network training regime in the setting of class-incremental learning. This approach avoids the pitfalls due to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-18 Sahil Nokhwal , Nirman Kumar

Sparse principal component analysis (PCA) is a popular dimensionality reduction technique for obtaining principal components which are linear combinations of a small subset of the original features. Existing approaches cannot supply…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-02-22 Dimitris Bertsimas , Ryan Cory-Wright , Jean Pauphilet

Representation learning aims to extract meaningful lower-dimensional embeddings from data, known as representations. Despite its widespread application, there is no established definition of a ``good'' representation. Typically, the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-05 Mahalakshmi Sabanayagam , Omar Al-Dabooni , Pascal Esser

Early work established convergence of the principal component estimators of the factors and loadings up to a rotation for large dimensional approximate factor models with weak factors in that the factor loading $\Lambda^{(0)}$ scales…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-03-12 Yong He , Dong Liu , Yunjing Sun , Yalin Wang

Principal component analysis (PCA) is known to be sensitive to outliers, so that various robust PCA variants were proposed in the literature. A recent model, called REAPER, aims to find the principal components by solving a convex…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-03-19 Robert Beinert , Gabriele Steidl

In the current context of data explosion, online techniques that do not require storing all data in memory are indispensable to routinely perform tasks like principal component analysis (PCA). Recursive algorithms that update the PCA with…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-11-13 Hervé Cardot , David Degras

When synthesizing multi-source high-dimensional data, a key objective is to extract low-dimensional representations that effectively approximate the original features across different sources. Such representations facilitate the discovery…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Zhenyu Wang , Molei Liu , Jing Lei , Francis Bach , Zijian Guo

Flow records, that summarize the characteristics of traffic flows, represent a practical and powerful way to monitor a network. While they already offer significant compression compared to full packet captures, their sheer volume remains…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-04-30 Gabriele Merlach , Damiano Ravalico , Martino Trevisan , Fabio Palmese , Giovanni Baccichet , Alessandro E. C. Redondi

This paper reconsiders end-to-end learning approaches to the Optimal Power Flow (OPF). Existing methods, which learn the input/output mapping of the OPF, suffer from scalability issues due to the high dimensionality of the output space.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-18 Seonho Park , Wenbo Chen , Terrence W. K. Mak , Pascal Van Hentenryck

Principal Component Analysis (PCA) and other multi-variate models are often used in the analysis of "omics" data. These models contain much information which is currently neither easily accessible nor interpretable. Here we present an…

Genomics · Quantitative Biology 2021-11-18 Nordine Aouni , Luc Linders , David Robinson , Len Vandelaer , Jessica Wiezorek , Geetesh Gupta , Rachel Cavill

Principal component analysis (PCA) is a dimensionality reduction method in data analysis that involves diagonalizing the covariance matrix of the dataset. Recently, quantum algorithms have been formulated for PCA based on diagonalizing a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-10-26 Max Hunter Gordon , M. Cerezo , Lukasz Cincio , Patrick J. Coles

Designing and modifying complex hull forms for optimal vessel performances have been a major challenge for naval architects. In the present study, Principal Component Analysis (PCA) is introduced to compress the geometric representation of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-10-30 Dongchi Yu , Lu Wang

Principal component analysis (PCA) is a well-established method commonly used to explore and visualise data. A classical PCA model is the fixed effect model where data are generated as a fixed structure of low rank corrupted by noise. Under…

Methodology · Statistics 2013-05-13 Marie Verbanck , Julie Josse , François Husson

Principal Component Analysis (PCA) is a highly useful topic within an introductory Linear Algebra course, especially since it can be used to incorporate a number of applied projects. This method represents an essential application and…

History and Overview · Mathematics 2016-04-19 Stephen Pankavich , Rebecca Swanson